Pieternella Hendrika "Henny" Vegter (born 28 February 1958, in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

) is a

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from the

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, who represented her country at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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. With

Marion Bultman Marion Alette Bultman (born 16 February 1960 in Oosterbeek) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Pusan. With Henny Vegter Pieternella Hendrika "Henny" Vegter (born 28 February 1958, in Ro ...

as crew, Vegter took the 13th place in the 470 Female. Vegter and Bultman were, with the exception of Mej. C. de Visser – substitute for the Star in 1936 –, the first female sailing competitors in the 88 years of Dutch Olympic sailing history.

References

1958 births Living people Dutch female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Sportspeople from Rotterdam 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub

Further reading

1988 Olympics (Pusan)

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